SRIMODBHAGAVAD GITA
Om Namah Bhagavate Vasudevaya
Om Sri Paramatman Namah
THE IMPOSSIBLE BRAHMAN YOGA (VIII)
Summary of Eighth Speech:
Lord Krishna explains how those who find Him need not return to this eternal world of sorrow and grief. All creatures, including the gods, come to this earth many times from the invisible realm where they live at the end of the cycle of years. But the Lord is present even beyond this invisible person. That glorious, incorruptible reality of God is the highest attainable goal. Dedication to our one mind is the key to achieving this most blessed state.
Although there are happy and exciting situations to leave the physical body and go away, but if a person abides in the Lord with strong devotion and faith, then these conditions do not matter. By abiding in the Lord with pure love, everything is made accessible, if one can remain in union with God with deep devotion, constant remembrance, constant meditation and continuous nourishment, then all times, places, situations and conditions become pleasant and blessed. This is the secret to asking for His Grace and to receive Him and to have eternal freedom and happiness.
Arjuna here asks Lord Krishna about the meaning of the different words mentioned by Him in the last two verses of the previous chapter. He wants to know what the Supreme Being is, what karma or action he refers to, and what the meaning of the spirit, the elements, and the center of all that is in the human body are.
Apart from all that is visible and invisible, apart from these names and forms, there is the Supreme Brahman. He lives in this body as the center of all things, including ourselves (each soul). We are a spiritual person living in this body and supported by the Silent Witness within the Supreme Antaryamin. Prakriti or Nature is a genetic material. Worship, prayer and devotion to the gods in faith and devotion are actions that lead to happiness.
The secret to reaching the Supreme Being and thus freeing oneself forever from birth and death and the pains and sufferings of this earthly life, is to always remember the Lord always, in all places and in the midst of one's daily activities. If a person practices consistent recollection using the usual daily Shanahana, he will be focused on His remembrance and the time of departure from this body when he dies. Leaving thus, he will transcend darkness and slavery and attain a place of eternal blessing.
One has to use mental control. The nerves should be well directed and gradually withdrawn from external objects. The mind must be centered within God, according to Om or another divine name. By doing so every day the Lord is easily found.
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Arjuna Uvaacha:
Kim tadbrahma kim adhyaatmam kim karma purushottama;
I Adhibhootam of kim proktam adhidaivam kimuchyate.
Arjuna said:
1. What is that Brahman? What is Adhyatma? What is the action, O good among men? What is Adebutas? And what about Adhidaiva?
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Adhiyajnah katham ko'tra dehe'smin madhusoodana;
Prayaanakaale cha katham jneyo'si niyataatmabhih.
2. Who and how is Adhiyajna here in this body, you destroyer of Madhu (Krishna)? And how, at the time of death, how is He known by the one that exercises self-control?
ANSWER: In the last two verses of the seventh speech, Lord Krishna uses some philosophical terms. Arjuna does not hear their explanation. So he keeps asking the Lord.
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Sri Bhagavaan Uvaacha:
Aksharam brahma paramam swabhaavo'dhyaatmamuchyate;
Bhootabhaavodbhavakaro visargah karmasamjnitah.
The Blessed Lord said:
3. Brahman belongs to File, irresistible; His essential nature is called Self-Esteem; the giving (of gods) that makes the existence and manifestation of creatures also self-supporting is called an act.
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Adhibhootam ksharo bhaavah purushashchaadhidaivatam;
Adhiyajno'hamevaatra dehe dehabhritaam vara.
4. Adhibhuta (genetic information) is about My decaying Nature, and Purusha or soul is Adhidaiva; I am the only Adhiajna here in this body, O leading among the men gathered!
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Antakaale cha mavava smaran muktwaa kalevaram;
Yah prayaati sa madbhaavam yaati naastyatra samshayah.
5. And whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it, and shall live for ever. there is no doubt about this.
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Yam yam vaapi smaran bhaavam tyajatyante kalevaram;
Tam tamevaiti kaunteya sadaa tadbhaavabhaavitah.
6. Anyone who eventually leaves the body, thinking of anyone, goes to that alone, O son of Kunti (Arjuna), because of his continuous thought of that person!
ANSWER: The most vivid idea about human life remains in the mind at the time of death. It determines the nature of the body to be acquired at the next birth.
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Tasmaat sarveshu kaaleshu maamanusmara yudhya cha;
Mayyarpitamanobuddhir maamevaishyasyasamshayam.
7. Therefore, always remember Me alone and fight. If the mind and the mind are focused (or focused on me), you will no doubt come to me alone.
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Abhyaasayogayuktena chetasaa naanyagaaminaa;
Paramam purusham divyam yaati paarthaanuchintayan.
8. With a mind that is unmistakable, steadfast in the way of constant meditation, and constant meditation, one goes to the Most High, the Most High, O Arjuna!
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I-Kavim puraanamanushaasitaaram
Anoraneeyaamsam anusmaredyah;
Sarvasya dhaataaram achintyaroopam
Aadityavarnam tamasah parastaat.
9. Anyone who ponders the All-Knowing, the Old, the (universal) ruler, the smallest atom, the supporter of all, unthinkable, glorious as the sun and above the darkness of ignorance,
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Prayaanakaale manasaachalena
Bhaktyaa yukto yogabalena eyes;
Bhruvormadhye praanamaav
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